Tonight we had the first meeting for hams in the NE Tarrant county area who are interested in Broadband Hamnet MESH nodes and the network we are trying to build. For the past several months, perhaps a year or more, Rusty-AE5AE, has been having meetings that he calls “Digital Tuesday”. But since these meetings are […] Read more »

Ubiquiti hardware is gaining a large amount of support and interest from the ham community for setting up MESH networks. Their M2 Bullets have received great reviews and the BBHN firmware dropped last week. The HP (high power) models are currently the only models that will work with the BBHN firmware due to having 32MB […] Read more »

Every Saturday morning from 9am until around Noon, the Hurst Amateur Radio Club meets for tech-talk and all-around live ragchew at the Hurst EOC, which is located at Hurst Fire Station#2 on Pipeline road. This is a fun time to get together and talk shop on anything related to Amateur Radio. Usually there isn’t a […] Read more »

I received this email update from a fellow ham. Thanks to Craig, N5LNX, for pointing this group out to me. You can sign up for the Yahoo group at This Link This isn’t new information, as it was posted in March of 2013, but I am new to this area of Ham Radio, so I […] Read more »

This is something cool I heard about a while back, but just now started doing some real research on. Thanks to KC5ONZ for explaining how a MeshNet can be used in Ham Radio, and thanks to WA5YSX for informing me that there is already a huge network covering most of N. Texas for ham-only activity. […] Read more »